Octopus Go/Go faster - enforcing "EVs only" ??

[Stinsy]

I know someone who has recently moved his mother to Go. She has storage heaters and was previously paying 25p/kWh off-peak.

The online form did ask if she had and EV and which model. Unfortunately she lives in a flat with no parking space or EV charging point and has never owned a car of any description, but his cat ran across the keyboard at the crucial part of the signup process so he is unsure what was entered.

Anyway she’ll be enjoying 9p/kWh heating this winter…

[Stig]

I know someone who has recently moved his other to Go. She has storage heaters and was previously paying 25p/kWh off-peak.

The online form did ask if she had and EV and which model. Unfortunately she lives in a flat with no parking space or EV charging point and has never owned a car of any description, but his cat ran across the keyboard at the crucial part of the signup process so he is unsure what was entered.

Anyway she’ll be enjoying 9p/kWh heating this winter…

It does seem a bit churlish to exclude people that don't have the means to own an EV from a more cost-effective tariff, I wonder what Octopus' rationale is.

[John_S]

It does seem a bit churlish to exclude people that don't have the means to own an EV from a more cost-effective tariff, I wonder what Octopus' rationale is.

Perhaps it is because they figure that they will sell more electricity to EV owners.

[Yuff]

Maybe it’s not octopus’s rationale.
I just don’t get how governments expect private EV drivers to pay more for EVs than ICE and then expect them to pay more to charge publicly than it dues to fill up at a garage.
If octopus weren’t offering cheap off peak charging who would bother with an EV

[Stinsy]

It does seem a bit churlish to exclude people that don't have the means to own an EV from a more cost-effective tariff, I wonder what Octopus' rationale is.

Perhaps it is because they figure that they will sell more electricity to EV owners.

My guess is that EV owners are likely to use a large amount of electricity. I know I can use as much in a month as OFGEM say a typical house consumes in a year! So there is profit to be made even after offering a generous price.

Whereas a non-EV household consuming a similar amount of electric as the OFGEM figure is tough to profit from even without them timeshifting.

However I really don’t understand how storage heaters are any different to EVs…

[robl]

So my buddy just got go!
He’s got a home batt and PV, and was with octopus already, with a smart smets 1 ‘secure’ meter that was correctly sending readings for import and export according to their app.
He found an online link to swap to go, said yes to some sort of pdf of terms and conditions that he didn’t read as there were pages and pages like a Eula. That was it, he was straight onto go, instant. No check about a car (maybe buried in the Eula). He’s a happy bunny.